[OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 12/13/2011 4:46 PM, Peter Wendorff wrote:
> Even in law exists the distinction between crimes done willingly and
> those done unwillingly or without knowledge. You don't get necessarily
> out of the case without any harm if you didn't know or didn't want it,
> but often you have to do/pay/be imprisoned less than if you would have
> done that willingly.

We're not talking about crimes here, but about copyright status. An 
unknowing derivative work is still a derivative work. The penalties for 
profiting off such a work may be less if infringement is not 
intentional, but the status of the work does not change.